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#77206
07/29/2002 9:12 PM
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stranger
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After some discussion in our office about the validity of "endorsation" as a word I took some time to search online and paper dictionaries. I have yet to find a definition of this word; however, I did find numerous articles where it has been used in place of endorsement (usually in reports related to decisions made by governing bodies). Is endorsation actually a word, or has it been made up and used in place of endorsement?
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#77207
07/29/2002 9:21 PM
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Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Teacher Certification in Nova Scotia
Endorsation. ENDORSATION RECOGNIZES THE principle that teachers are to be competent
in both the subject area and the methodology of the subjects they teach. ...
http://www.nstu.ns.ca/certification/endorse.html
More Results From: www.nstu.ns.ca
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#77208
07/29/2002 9:32 PM
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Joined: Dec 2000
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No way, no how.
"Endorsement" is a perfectly useable word, and endorsation is just incorrectly verbing the noun.
You didn't find it in any dictionaries, and I hope you won't, 'cuz it's ugly.
And just because you found it used on this here internet thingy or elsewhere, doesn't mean it's correct.
(To confirm this latter point, I recently based a round of Hogwash [a definition-inventing game for rare words] on a misspelling in a book I was reading, resulting in my eating at least 31 varieties of crow).
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#77209
07/29/2002 9:42 PM
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sorry to say that it's in OED2, as a variant of indorsation, which itself doesn't seem to have been used since the end of the (19th) century.
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#77210
07/29/2002 9:51 PM
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it's in OED2
Okay, it's out there, and it's ugly.
Would you, tsuwm, sanction its use? Would you lend it your indorsificationismation?
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#77211
07/30/2002 1:09 PM
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Joined: Aug 2000
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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This is obviously a portmanteau word, based on the unusual construction, "sation", from "satiate" - "sation" is the state of being satiated: i.e, to have reached the point of sation. Therefore, one may say, "He [or she] has reached the end or sation."  
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#77212
07/30/2002 3:15 PM
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Posts: 11,613
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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end or sationGROAN-N-N... Welcome, McKay100.  For what it's worth, this word makes me want to tear my hair out. But not badly enough to run sceaming around in circles while I do it...
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